Lake Air Montessori School

Size

Of the 15 elementary schools in Waco ISD, Lake Air Montessori School is the 2nd largest, with 5.5% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.2 miles away and have a median of 455 students, so Lake Air Montessori School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is pre-K with 116 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 49, against an average of 73 per grade. This year grade 8 has 31% fewer students than kindergarten (49 against 71). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 116 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 68% of enrollment, a higher share than across Waco ISD (62.5%). White students are next, at 15.9%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

68.1% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 88.1% across Waco ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Lake Air Montessori School has 54.76 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 734 students would have about 49.6 teachers, so Lake Air Montessori School has 5.2 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Hillcrest Pds Magnet, 0.3 miles away in the same district. There are 18 elementary schools within 5 miles and 34 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.